Tuesday, June 30, 2015

With each incident of police violence unleashed
on yet another unarmed African-American – another wave of consciousness sweeps
the country as new rebellious uprisings emerge.
There are black and brown communities all over the country – the
constant targets of police violence – who have said no more and are actively
galvanizing, mobilizing, organizing and yes, resisting. There is something emerging in this country
that can longer be contained – and we recently bore witness to that in
Baltimore, Maryland.

For the last two months there’s been relatively two
burning questions asked by those in and out of Baltimore - what exactly happened to Freddy Gray and how did he die? Since Mr. Gray died from horrific spinal injuries
occurring while in police custody - these questions were left unanswered only
for the public to draw their own conclusions – until now. The recent “leaking” of the autopsy report to
the Baltimore Sun is supposed to finally address these questions. The “leaked” autopsy report revealed that Mr. Gray
suffered from what the report described as a “high energy” injury while making
a comparison to injuries suffered from shallow-water diving accidents. The
report states: The type of
fracture/dislocation documented in imaging studies on admission is a high
energy injury most often caused by abrupt deceleration of a rotated head on a
hyperflexed neck, such as seen in shallow water diving incidents.”